Thomson Mastering the 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies

Effective Lessons to Grow Your Business
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-63480-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Practical strategies to propel your company to the top
American business is entering unchartered territory. Recenttrends suggest that we are moving out of a recession-fairly labeledThe Great Recession-into a recovery phase characterized by highunemployment with growth. As such, the business road ahead will bechallenging. Growth will be harder to achieve and business failurewill be more prevalent.
But the best of America's growth businesses will pass throughthis cycle to experience renewed and hopeful growth in contrast tothe high failure rate of those who fail to grow. The numbers areproving this to be the extreme case-a higher upside with a greaterfailure rate.
What are America's recession-proof, highest growth companiesdoing differently? What are the values, fundamentals, and actionsthat will make the difference between failure, or just survivingand thriving? The answer to these questions is, what Thomson calls,The 7 Essentials-value proposition, high growth marketsegment, marquee customers, big brother alliances, exponentialreturns, inside/outside leadership, and essential board experts.This book is the timely answer to the search for what it will taketo propel a company's growth through these challenging times. It'sfor management teams of any business, independent of size orindustry, which desires to identify a course of action to improvetheir opportunities to grow.
"Applying the 7 Essentials will improve your company's growthprospects," says author David Thomson. Growth companies areespecially defined by their ability to grow through recession andrecovery periods to become the new growth leaders. The case studiesand the numbers in this book prove it. This reliable resourceextends the insights from Thomson's bestselling book, Blueprintto a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth toapply the 7 Essentials to all companies.
Thomson is known as America's growth expert on what it takes totransform a small business into a billion dollar one. He has beenrecognized by Investors Business Daily as the "Guru forUncovering the Blueprint for Sizzling Growth Companies."
* Offers busy professionals essential insights that will movetheir business or business unit beyond surviving and into thrivingnow and in the future
* Written by an expert on how companies achieve growth inchallenging markets
* Contains key CEO interviews and quick case studies and issupported by on-line scoring tools to help teams apply the 7Essentials
Economic weakness has not changed the need for companies togrow. This book provides you with a proven framework to overcomesuch challenges and thrive in today's challenging businessenvironment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomson, David G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART ONE: Achieving Growth during Challenging Times.
Companies That Are Redefining Growth.
Your Revenue Growth Blueprint.
PART TWO: The 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies.
The 7 Essentials.
Applying the 7 Essentials as a Positive Feedback System.
Three Big Boulders on the Path to Growth--And How to ClearThem Away.
PART THREE: The 7 Essentials in Action.
The Emergence of the Global 7 Essentials.
Blueprint . . . or Blue Print: Same Story, Same Values.
Applying the 7 Essentials at HCL Technologies.
HCL's Blue Print for Continued Exponential Growth.
PART FOUR: A Blueprint to Achieve High Growth.
Create Your 7 Essentials Action Plan.
Build Your 7 Essentials Roadmap.
Insights to Actions.
The 7 Essentials for Start-Up Companies.
PART FIVE: A Growth Calling.
Identify Your Growth Calling.
Essential Leadership Pillars.
Your Journey Begins with Three Steps.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David G. Thomson is a bestselling author, advisor, and speaker. He is the founder and Chairman of the Blueprint Growth Institute, a specialized management consulting firm focused on helping companies develop growth strategies and execute The 7 Essentials. His insights on the success pattern of America's highest growth companies--which he wrote about in his bestseller Blueprint to a Billion--have been embraced globally. Thomson has been studying and leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard and as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. Visit www.blueprintgrowth.com for more information.